Oh No !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While harvesting onions this morning I looked at our maple trees and found this:

Fall colors already??

Actually several trees around here are already beginning to turn into autumn colors.  I am NOT ready for winter!!  sigh. 
     But actually there are many signs of fall lately:  I harvested onions and grapes, the birds are beginning to line up on power lines, the farmers are harvesting wheat (that's where Harold is today, helping one of the area farmers with the wheat harvest), the weeds have all gone to seed, the loons are already gone to somewhere else, the goldenrod is out, grasshoppers and crickets are back - these are all signs of changing seasons.  It's hard to realize that in less than a month the trees will be in full peak autumn colors around here in northern Minnesota.  In less than 6 weeks the trees will be bare again.   And then it is winter..........again.  sigh.